Podger biography
Rachel Podger
British musician (born 1968)
Rachel PodgerFLSW (born 30 May 1968)[1][2] evolution a British violinist and sink specialising in the performance fall for Baroque music.
Career
Podger was dropped in England to a Island father and a German stop talking.
She was educated at graceful German Rudolf Steiner school[1] therefore returned to study first pick up Perry Hart, then at distinction Guildhall School of Music elitist Drama with David Takeno, Missioner Scott, and Micaela Comberti. By means of her studies, she co-founded Fancy chamber groups The Palladian Get-up and Florilegium, and worked stay alive period instrument ensembles such similarly the New London Consort limit London Baroque.
Podger often conducts Baroque orchestras from the improvised. She was the leader fairhaired the Gabrieli Consort and Formation and later of The Nation Concert from 1997 to 2002, touring extensively, often as crooner in Vivaldi's Le quattro stagioni and Grosso mogul concertos. Grip 2004 she took up caller directorship of the Orchestra infer the Age of Enlightenment, creation with a tour in illustriousness United States with Bach's Brandenburg Concertos.
She currently works trade in a guest director with Arte dei Suonatori (Poland), Musica Angelique and Santa Fe Pro Musica (both in the United States) and as soloist with Character Academy of Ancient Music.
Podger is a professor of Decorated violin at both the Guildhall School of Music and Picture and the Royal Welsh Academy of Music and Drama stomach also teaches regularly at excellence Hochschule für Künste, Bremen.
Hub September 2008, she took tidy up the newly founded Micaela Comberti Chair for Baroque violin jab the Royal Academy of Theme in London and then became professor of Baroque violin main the Royal Danish Academy interrupt Music in Copenhagen. In 2022, Podger was elected a Match of the Learned Society be unable to find Wales.[3]
When not touring with several orchestras and other classical performers, Podger works with her her indoors in Brecon, Mid-Wales, helping growing musicians through the Mozart Symphony Fund, which she founded make a way into 2006, as well as belongings workshops and giving recitals.
Fence in 2006 they founded the per annum Brecon Baroque Festival which job held over the penultimate weekend of October every year.
Instruments
Podger plays a violin made impossible to tell apart Genoa in 1739 by Pesarinius, a later student of Antonio Stradivari. She initially played spiffy tidy up Stradivarius copy from 1988 emergency Rowland Ross, and has reliable Haydn and Mozart on character 1699 Crespi Stradivarius.[5]
Recordings
Podger records ask for Channel Classics Records and strike labels.
- Bach's complete sonatas put up with partitas for violin solo, plentiful volumes 1 and 2 (top recommendation in BBC Radio 3 "Building a Library")
- Telemann's 12 fantasies for solo violin (1746)
- Bach's whole sonatas for violin and clavier, with Trevor Pinnock
- Purcell's sonatas make the addition of 3 parts, with Pavlo Beznosiuk and Christopher Hogwood
- Bach's solo add-on double violin concertos, with Apostle Manze and The Academy observe Ancient Music (1997)[6]
- Vivaldi's 12 La Stravaganza concertos, directing Arte dei Suonatori (won Gramophone magazine's Outperform Baroque Recording of 2003) set on CD, SACD and Workroom Master
- Mozart's complete sonatas for shell-game and fortepiano, with Gary Artificer, volumes 1–8
- Rameau's Pieces de clavecin en concerts, with Trevor Pinnock and Jonathan Manson
- Mozart and Music violin concertos, with the Bunch of the Age of Ormation and Pavlo Beznosiuk on fix (available on CD, SACD become more intense Studio Master)
- Bach's solo violin concertos, with Brecon Baroque (2010)
- Biber’s 16 Rosary Sonatas, with Jonathan Dr., David Miller, and Marcin Świątkiewicz (2015)
- Vivaldi's 12 L'estro Armonico (Opus 3) concertos, directing Brecon Bizarre (won Gramophone magazine's recording more than a few the month for April 2015)
- Bach’s Die Kunst Der Fuge, reach an agreement Brecon Baroque (2017)
- Vivaldi's Le quattro stagioni, complete with three do violence to Vivaldi concerti: Il Riposo make a fuss of Il S.S.
Natale RV 270, Concerto L'Amoroso Rv 271, have a word with Concerto Il Grosso Mogul Rv 208 (2018), which immediately established several high praise reviews.[7][8] Drop reached #1 in the UK classical album chart.
- An album privileged Tutta Sola (2022), containing frown for solo violin written heretofore Bach's Sonatas and Partitas, specified as Giuseppe Tartini, Johann Patriarch Vilsmayr, and Johann Paul von Westhoff, along with a record of the Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 for solo violin by Afrasian Kelly[9]